Keeping power tariff for different categories of consumers unchanged for 2023-24 will be a big challenge for the Aam Aadmi Party
government, as it prepares to receive the tariff order for the next fiscal from the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC).
The new tariff order would be announced in the last week of March and would become effective from April 1.
With the state government’s power subsidy bill increasing by nearly Rs 4,350 crore within a year because of free power to domestic consumers, an abnormally higher power demand expected in the peak summer and increased prices of coal and freight, a category of consumers may end up paying a slightly high power tariff.
